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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[April i, 1906. 



tapping operations a year as Hevca will with ten or twenty 

 when the trees are the same age. A FORESTER. 



Btuefields, Nicaragua, January, 1906. 



RUBBER YIELD IN KALUTARA. 



The last annual report of the planters' association of 

 Kalutara district, Ceylon, shows the following increase in 

 the acreage of Pard rubber under cultivation at the end of 

 two years : 



1904 igo5 



Rubber alone acres 3,128 6,038 



Rubber planted in tea 6,759 7.256 



Total 9,997 13.294 



It is likely that this year a considerably larger acreage of 

 new land will be planted, but it is not thought that very 

 much more tea will be planted up. During the year 101,978 

 pounds of rubber were gathered, from 88,667 trees, or an aver- 

 age of 1. 15 pounds per tree. It is estimated that 43 per cent, 

 of the trees were tapped for the first time. 



CEYLON AND THE MALAY STATES. 



Mr. R. \V. H.vrrison for man}- jears interested in the 

 progress of rubber planting in Ceylon, his headquarters being 

 in Culloden, has gone to the Federated l\Ialay States and will 

 make his headquarters at Klang, Selangor. where he will 

 have charge of "Highlands," "Lowlands," and other es- 

 tates in which Mr. W. \V. Bailey is interested. 



= Dr. A. H. Suggett, of the Rio Michol Rubber Plantation 

 Co. (San Francisco, California), writes to The Times of Cey- 

 lon that he expects to visit the Far East some time this year 

 to stud\' rubber culture as developed there. He writes : 

 " We will begin earh' in 1906 to tap our cultivated trees [in 

 Mexico] and my mission in Ceylon and the Federated Malay 

 States is to learn all that I can about the practical part of 

 rubber culture. We have only the Indian or Mexican, meth- 

 ods to follow, which are very wasteful and must be improved 

 upon." 



= Much interest is felt in the Far Ea.st in the rubber ex- 

 hibition which it has been decided to hold at the Ceylon bo- 

 tanic gardens, at Peradeniya, on September 13-15 next. 



= The annual report of the Ceylon Planters' Association 

 for 1904, in dealing with the rubber planting situation, said 

 that " a safe estimate for 1905," as to exports of rubber pro- 

 duced, " would be some 120,000 pounds. " The actual figures 

 proved to be 168,547 pounds. It is interesting to see a prom- 

 ise so well justified by performance. 



=The Ceylon Planters' Association referred to a committee 

 the question of asking the government to place an export 

 duty upon rubber seeds, but the proposal not appearing to 

 meet the unanimous approval of those interested, no further 

 action will be taken. The Tiynes of Ceylon, however, hopes 

 that the information gathered by the committee will lie pub- 

 lished. 



CONSOLIDATED MALAY RUBBER ESTATES, LIMITED. 



Registered in London October 7, 1905 ; capital, ;^75,ooo 

 =§364, .987. 50], to acquire the "Leigh," " Atherton," and, 

 " Ainsdale," estates, in Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay States 

 owned by H. and C. E. Tunnicliffe and F. M. Porcher, and com- 

 prising about 4300 acres, of which 750 are planted in coffee and 

 rubber illmea BrasiWensi's) and Ficus elastica). The object is 

 to grow rubber, coffee, and other crops. First directors : G. 

 G. Anderson, J. L. Shaud, and W. T, Wilson, all of England. 



The estates have been in charge of F. M. Porcher, Port Dick- 

 son, Negri Sembilan. 



THE RIO MICHOL RUBBER PLANTATION CO. 



[Plantation "Rio Michol," in the state of Ch apas. Mexico. Office: Mer- 

 chants' Exchange building, San Francisco, Califo'nia.] 



[See The India Rubber World, January i, 1904 -page 127.] 



The report of the shareholders' inspectors shows a favor- 

 able rate of development of rubber on this plantation dur- 

 ing the year, and also on the 550 acres acquired early in 

 1904 from the Los Angeles Rubber Plantation Co., now no 

 longer active. Experiments made in tapping young planted 

 trees are reported satisfactory, under methods which, applied 

 to the wild trees on the estate, have produced a superior 

 quality of rubber, shipments of which have been made to 

 .San Francisco and New York. The company hope to derive 

 a good profit from ixtle and jocolin fibers. 



WISCONSIN RUBBER CO. 



[Plantation near El Salto, department of Palenque, state of Chiapas, Mex 

 ico. Office: Fairchild block, Madison. Wisconsin.] 



1 See The India Ri'bber World, M.trch i. 1905— page 189 ] 



A RECENTLY issued report states that 1677 acres were 

 cleared and planted to rubber in 1905, in addition to 800 

 acres planted the year before. The company purpose plant- 

 ing in time a total of 5000 acres. The estate is one of four 

 worked under contract by the Mexican Development and 

 Construction Co., of which John R. Markle}' is president. 

 Corn is grown as a side crop, with a large j-ield reported, 

 the proceeds of which is referred to as affording dividends to 

 the investors in the company — 6 per cent, for 1904 and 8 per 

 cent, for 1905, on the paid up capital. The compan}^ is capi- 

 talized at 51,500,000, in 5000 shares of $300, of which 1600 

 are rejjorted to have been sold, on the system of install- 

 ment payments. 



RUBBER MONOPOLY IN NICARAGUA. 



The concession granted bj- the government of Nicaragua 

 for a monopolj- of the exports of crude rubber from the de- 

 partment of Zelaya, districts of Prinzapolca and Rio Grande, 

 mentioned in The Indi.\ Rubber W^orld October i, 1905 

 (page 14), is the subject of a report bj* the United States con- 

 sul at San Juan del Nore, Mr. Ryder, who writes : 



It is reasonable to fix the quantity annually shipped from this 

 district at about 500 000 pounds. This will produce a revenue to 

 the concessionaire at the present rate of j!5o,ooo (gold) per year, or 

 8500,000 during the existence of the contract Yet the government 

 exchequer is enriched only to the extent of S 1 600 in full for the 

 term of 10 years. 



GUAYULE FOUND IN TEXAS. 



Tex.\s newspapers report the occurrence of the Guayule 

 rubber plant in the lower counties of that state. It might 

 be mentioned that specimens of this plant {ParUieniiim argen- 

 tatuni) found in Texas were the subject of scientific reports 

 before its discovery in Mexico. Mr. Otto Koehler, president 

 of the National Rubber Co. (San Antonio, Texas), formed to 

 operate a Guayule factory at Torreon, Mexico, says that the 

 Texas plants appear less rich in rubber, but that it may be 

 worth while to work them up if transportation facilities are 

 favorable and if plenty of water is obtainable. 



Ernst Gilg, in Notisblatt of the Berlin botanical gar- 

 dens (December, 1905), describes a new rubber yielding 

 liane, discovered by .\lbert Simon in northwest Kamerun, 

 which is designated Clitaniire Simoni. 



